Job Title: Structural Analyst
Location: Remote (Candidates must reside in Alabama, Florida or Washington)
Job Type: Full Time, Contract
Expected hours per week: 40
Schedule: 8:00am-5:00pm, Mon-Fri
Pay: $78-102/hr (Varies by Location)
Job Description:
About the Role
We are seeking a Stress Analyst III or Senior Stress Analyst to support the analysis and validation of critical aerospace ground systems and launch infrastructure. In this role, you will perform structural, functional, and dynamic analyses on umbilical systems, ground support equipment, launch pad hardware, transportation tooling, and test equipment to ensure safe, reliable performance throughout launch, abort, testing, and handling operations.
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with strong finite element analysis (FEA) experience and a background in aerospace, mechanical systems, or ground support equipment.
Key Responsibilities
Umbilical Systems
- Perform structural and dynamic analyses to validate umbilical hardware performance during launch and abort operations.
- Evaluate disconnect timing, clearances, load cases, and release/retraction mechanisms.
- Assess hardware behavior under operational and dynamic loading conditions.
Ground Testing Equipment
- Analyze test fixtures, stands, instrumentation hardware, and support equipment.
- Verify structural integrity and functionality under mechanical, fluid, and electrical interface loads.
- Support equipment qualification for leak checks and test operations.
Launch Pad Structures & Umbilical Mate Simulators
- Perform structural analyses of launch pad systems, support structures, and integrated infrastructure.
- Evaluate hardware against operational, thermal, environmental, and launch-induced loads.
- Support design validation and risk mitigation efforts.
Transportation & Handling Tooling
- Analyze lifting fixtures, transport frames, handling rings, and related tooling.
- Validate load paths, rigging configurations, and lifting operations.
- Ensure compliance with applicable safety factors, rated load requirements, and industry standards.
General Engineering Responsibilities
- Develop hand calculations and finite element models to support design validation.
- Perform static, dynamic, thermal, and load path analyses.
- Generate formal engineering reports supporting design reviews and configuration-controlled releases.
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and drafting teams to drive engineering solutions.
- Ensure compliance with applicable aerospace and engineering standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience performing structural analysis on aerospace hardware, ground support equipment, or mechanical systems.
- Proficiency with FEA software such as:
- ANSYS
- Nastran
- Abaqus
- Femap or similar tools
- Strong understanding of:
- Static stress analysis
- Dynamic analysis
- Thermal analysis
- Load path evaluation
- Factors of safety and rated load requirements
- Experience developing engineering calculations and validating designs through analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting launch vehicle ground systems, umbilical hardware, or aerospace test equipment.
- Knowledge of NASA engineering standards and requirements.
- Familiarity with:
- NASA-STD-8719
- ASME BTH-1
- Experience supporting launch or abort load case development.
- Background supporting design reviews and configuration-controlled engineering releases.
Benefits: 80 hours paid time off, and medical insurance contributions, dental vision and our 401k retirement savings plan
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